Stage IV is not an automatic death sentence. Every single person is unique and not a statistic. Prognosis is generally poor but that does not mean that adequate treatment will not help put the patient into remission. Survival depends on the specific type of cancer, grade, age of patient, patients overall health, skill of oncologist, and patient response to first line treatment.
My son had abdominal tumors scattered throughout the abdominal cavity, diaphragm, spleen, liver, colon, pelvis . . stage IV . . he was treated using high dose chemotherapy, surgical debulking and intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemoperfusion (which removed all visible disease). After nine months he was no evidence of disease and continued for another nine months. He relapsed after two years. I mention this because his type of cancer in females is often mistaken for ovarian cancer . . and the treatments can be similar. And, I have known one young female who was stage IV and is now in remission going on five years. She is now going to college and engaged to be married. So it is possible.
Unfortunately at any stage there is no guarantee no matter what treatment is done or not done. Treatment is a chance . . the only chance a stage IV patient will have of achieving remission and eventual cure. There are patients out there who have done this . . but there is no ‘cure’ for metastatic cancer . .only treatment that can lead to an individual ‘remission’.
The prognosis for untreated ovarian cancer is extremely poor.
Stage 4 indicates that the surrounding tissues of the uterus and the ovaries have been invaded and this sadly means prognosis is very poor. The patient at Stage 4 OC can expect to loose the battle within a few short months or even weeks.
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Stage IV is not an automatic death sentence. Every single person is unique and not a statistic. Prognosis is generally poor but that does not mean that adequate treatment will not help put the patient into remission. Survival depends on the specific type of cancer, grade, age of patient, patients overall health, skill of oncologist, and patient response to first line treatment.
My son had abdominal tumors scattered throughout the abdominal cavity, diaphragm, spleen, liver, colon, pelvis . . stage IV . . he was treated using high dose chemotherapy, surgical debulking and intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemoperfusion (which removed all visible disease). After nine months he was no evidence of disease and continued for another nine months. He relapsed after two years. I mention this because his type of cancer in females is often mistaken for ovarian cancer . . and the treatments can be similar. And, I have known one young female who was stage IV and is now in remission going on five years. She is now going to college and engaged to be married. So it is possible.
Unfortunately at any stage there is no guarantee no matter what treatment is done or not done. Treatment is a chance . . the only chance a stage IV patient will have of achieving remission and eventual cure. There are patients out there who have done this . . but there is no ‘cure’ for metastatic cancer . .only treatment that can lead to an individual ‘remission’.
The prognosis for untreated ovarian cancer is extremely poor.
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